"Understanding Patient Safety" is the essential book for anyone trying to learn the key clinical, organizational, and systems issues in patient safety. Written in a lively, accessible style by one of the world's leaders in the field of medical mistakes (and a bestselling author), it is brimming with remarkable cases and analyzes, as well as up-to-date tables, graphics, references and tools - all designed to introduce the patient safety field to medical, nursing, pharmacy, hospital administration and other trainees, and to be the go-to book for experienced clinicians and non-clinicians alike.